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No. 362,520. Patented May 10, 1887.

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ABTHUR'M. "LESLIE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SEWING-MACHINE DRAWER.-

SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent N o. 362,520, dated May 10, 1887. Applicationfiled September15,1886. set-m1 No. 213,562. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR M. LEsLIE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing- Machine Drawers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improve ments in those sewing-machine drawers which are customarily provided beneath the ends of requisite rigidity, and at the same time so as hereinafter described and claimed.

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of these drawings represents a front view of a sewingmachiue table provided with a set of six drawers and a tableleaf support according to this invention. Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive, are large scale views showing in detail the left-hand drawers. Of these figures, Fig. 2 represents a vertical section in a central plane. Figs. 2, 2", and 2 are fragmentary sections illustrating proposed modifications. Figs. 3 3 represent, respectively, a bottom view and section of the suspending bearing of the leafsupport. Fig. 4 is atop view of one of the drawers. Fig. 5 is a face view of the guide-casting; and Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6 (i, Fig. 5.

Likeletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

S S represent the cast-iron legs or standards of the table, T, its wooden top, and L its drop-leaf, which may be of any approved make. Attached to the outer sides.

of said standards are right and left guide castings 0 C to which, respectively, are fitted bent wood drawers D D and a leaf-support,

S, is pivoted at the left of the left-hand set of drawers, as illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 3-. Each of said drawers is constructed, as illustrated by-Figs. 2 and 4, with rectangularlynut, k, and an internal lock, Z, complete the drawer in the preferred style; but any of these may be changed or omitted without materially changing the drawers as regards novelty.-

Grooves m in the upper and lower edges of the inner side,'b, of each drawer coact with horizontal guide-rails a, which are integral with the remainderof said guide-castings O C. Fig. 4, so as not to mar the frontends of the drawers, and their rear ends are masked by the broad rear bars, p, of said guide-castings, which form stops to limit theinsert-ion of each drawer, so as to keep the front ends of the drawers even when the drawers are closed)? The'bolts of the locks Z coact with the front bar, q, of each casting, as shown in Fig. 4. In addition to said guide-rails n and edge bars, q 19, said guide-castings O 0 have attachingbars r s, conformed in. shape to the upper portion of the standards S S and provided with screw-holes 25, through which screws pass into holes in said standards to attach the castings. (See Fig. 2.) The rails n are cut away opposite these bars 1' s, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, so that the whole may be readily molded. The exposed front bar, q, may be nickel-plated or lacquered to make a neat finish.

As illustrated by Figs. 2, 2", and 2, in connection with Fig. 2, the particular shape of the guide-rails a and the way in which the guide-grooves m are formed at the upper and lower edges of the drawer-sides b are not con- Said grooves have closed front ends, 0,

sidered of vital importance. The effective edges of said rails may be either approximately rectangular, as shown at n in Figs. 2 and 2", or V-shaped, as shown at n", Figs. 2 and 2, and the guide-grooves, of corresponding shapes, may be either formed in the wood of the side b, as shown at m, Fig. 2, and m Fig. 2, or by metallic strips, either cast or of sheet metal, attached to the side I), as illustrated at m and m, Figs. 2", 2. Said leaf-support S, Figs. 1 to 3, is a malleable-lron casting. It is suspended by a pivotbearing, P, having a countersink, u, and a slot, 11, to admit the upper end of the stem of Said support, and screwholes to, through which wood-screws pass upward into the tabletop T to attach it, said support being provided with a conical head, as, at the upper extremity of said stem to work in said countersink u. Said stem has a pivotal lower end, 3 which works in a vertical socket, e, at the extremity of a Y-shaped brace, B, attached at its bifurcated end to the lower edge of said guideeasting G. The support S folds behind the lowered leaf L, as shown in Fig. 1, and when the leaf is raised swings outward on said pivots and supports the leaf in horizontal position, as represented in Fig.- 2.

Having thus described my said improvement in sewing-machine drawers, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification- 1. In combination with sewing-machine drawers, each having a pair of guide-grooves formed, respectively, at the upper and lower edges of its inner side, a single guide-casting having horizontal guide-rails fitted to said grooves, and a laterally-extending rear bar, which connects said rails and limits theinsertion of the drawers, substantially as herein specified.

2. In combination with sewing machine drawers, each having a pair of guide-grooves formed, respectively, at the upper and lower edges of its inner side, and a fastening or look with laterally-projecting bolt at its front end, asingleguide-casting having horizontal guiderails fitted to said grooves, and a vertical front bar which connects said rails and coacts with the lock-bolts, substantially as herein specified.

3. The combination, in a sewing-machine table, of an ordinary standard, a rectangular guide-casting having attaching -bars conformed to the upper portion of the standard and attached thereto, a series of horizontal guide-rails, and vertical front and rear bars connecting said rails, said rear bar projecting laterally as a stop, and a series of drawers, each having guide-grooves at the upper and lower edges of its inner side fitted to said rails, and a rear corner which coacts with said rear bar, substantially as herein specified.

4. In a sewing-machine table having a dropleaf and drawers at one and the same end, the combination, with the coincident standard and the table-top, of a leatsupport depending from the latter, having a pivotal stem which is provided at its upper end with a pivotal head, a countersunk pivot-bearing fitted to said head and attached to the under surface of the table-top, and from which the leaf-support is inseparable when the parts are so assembled, and a brace provided with a pivotbearing for the lower end of said stem and attached to the standard below the lowermost drawer, substantially as herein specified.

A. M. LESLIE.

\Vitnesses:

O. W. Mnns'n, E. J. BAKER. 

